KRS 1505
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1505
- Transliteration
- l zbdn bn ys¹lm bn tm ḏ- ʾl ms¹kt w rdf dd -h f h lt rwḥ
- Translation
- By Zbdn son of Ys¹lm son of Tm of the lineage of Ms¹kt and he followed his paternal uncle and so O Lt [grant] relief from adversity and uncertainty
Interpretation
- Commentary
- w rdf dd -h could also be translated here as "and he rode as a radīf to his paternal uncle" [i.e. pillion on his uncle's camel]. On this practice see Macdonald 2015: 67–68.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched
- Associated Inscriptions
- Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
- Macdonald, M.C.A. Was there a “Bedouinization of Arabia”?. Der Islam 92:1, 2015: 42-84.
- Site
- Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1989
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0022134
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